lalo schifrin is another sturdy workhorse, but his jazz background made some nice music in a bunch of clint eastwood's movies.
as much as i respect john williams i really think he's overused by spielberg. during e.t. i woulda strangled him if he was in the room.
i don't know if it's he's too repetitive or whether he's just doing what he's asked. after all, film scoring, while it is creative work, the scorer really works at the behest of the director.
i think another special nod should go to george lucas because as weird as it may seem nobody used music the way he did in american graffiti, and now many many films use music wall to wall like he did in that movie.
DEAD MAN, the film my Jim Jarmush with the soundtrack by Neil Young.
The entire soundtrack was done with Neil watching the film and playing improvised guitar to what he saw. It works perfectly. He watched the film straight through once or twice and then watched it with his guitar. It's really Brilliant.
AMERICAN GRAFFITI was brilliant, but I think THE LONG GOODBYE by Robert Altman might have been better. NASHVILLE as well.
did the long goodbye use music instead of a score? nashville it was part of the movie.
in graffiti, lucas had to fight for the music usage, a) the studio weasels thought it detracted from the movie and hid the dialog, b) paying for the performance clearances was almost the biggest chunk of the budget.
of course the same weasels were singing a different tune once soundtrack sales started rolling in.
DEAD MAN, the film my Jim Jarmush with the soundtrack by Neil Young.
The entire soundtrack was done with Neil watching the film and playing improvised guitar to what he saw. It works perfectly. He watched the film straight through once or twice and then watched it with his guitar. It's really Brilliant.
John Carpenter deserves to be mentioned as well.
"where the buffalo roam" was good too. (the music at least.)
but "journey thru the past" i loved, but only once i saw the movie.
DEAD MAN, the film my Jim Jarmush with the soundtrack by Neil Young.
The entire soundtrack was done with Neil watching the film and playing improvised guitar to what he saw. It works perfectly. He watched the film straight through once or twice and then watched it with his guitar. It's really Brilliant.
the thread title says soundtrack, but the starter clearly was referring to scores in his initial thread.
but i think peoples choices are interesting either way.
pop music in movies is mostly superfluous, meant to sell a soundtrack. there are exceptions.
paul thomas anderson's use of pop music in magnolia, i thought, was groundbreaking, all the characters in turn, singing along to aimee mann's "wise up." it would have gotten nominated for best song ("save me" by aimee mann was nominated) had it not already been used in the soundtrack (superfluously i might add) in "jerry mcguire."
you sad, pathetic, little "people" all missed the painfully obvious. 2001: A Space Odyssey. If memory serves me as well as I think it does, that was one of the first movies to use music as an integral part of the flick. the ape, the bone, the music. if we didn't have each of those pieces, i doubt that scene (and many others) would have been as powerful. plus, the tunes on their own are real nice too.
and, on the subject of kubrick and his wonderousness, Clockwork has some nice songs too. that lighthouse song always surprises me.
What got me curious about all of this was an interview I heard with Chris Douridas on All Things Considered yesterday. The process of how he put together a music score for a film was fascinating.
And I was initially looking for best movie scores, but like skmdc said, it's interesting to hear peoples choices either way.
Speaking of film composers, could anyone have predicted that the frontman of 'Oingo Boingo' would become one of the leading composers of our time?
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The Wedding Singer
look at his credits
lalo schifrin is another sturdy workhorse, but his jazz background made some nice music in a bunch of clint eastwood's movies.
as much as i respect john williams i really think he's overused by spielberg. during e.t. i woulda strangled him if he was in the room.
i don't know if it's he's too repetitive or whether he's just doing what he's asked. after all, film scoring, while it is creative work, the scorer really works at the behest of the director.
i think another special nod should go to george lucas because as weird as it may seem nobody used music the way he did in american graffiti, and now many many films use music wall to wall like he did in that movie.
The entire soundtrack was done with Neil watching the film and playing improvised guitar to what he saw. It works perfectly. He watched the film straight through once or twice and then watched it with his guitar. It's really Brilliant.
John Carpenter deserves to be mentioned as well.
Originally posted by bunge
AMERICAN GRAFFITI was brilliant, but I think THE LONG GOODBYE by Robert Altman might have been better. NASHVILLE as well.
did the long goodbye use music instead of a score? nashville it was part of the movie.
in graffiti, lucas had to fight for the music usage, a) the studio weasels thought it detracted from the movie and hid the dialog, b) paying for the performance clearances was almost the biggest chunk of the budget.
of course the same weasels were singing a different tune once soundtrack sales started rolling in.
Originally posted by bunge
DEAD MAN, the film my Jim Jarmush with the soundtrack by Neil Young.
The entire soundtrack was done with Neil watching the film and playing improvised guitar to what he saw. It works perfectly. He watched the film straight through once or twice and then watched it with his guitar. It's really Brilliant.
John Carpenter deserves to be mentioned as well.
"where the buffalo roam" was good too. (the music at least.)
but "journey thru the past" i loved, but only once i saw the movie.
Office Space.
although the only other one i'd have to mention would also be Last of the Mohicans.
Originally posted by sammi jo
One of my favorites: "Witness". The music, by Maurice Jarre (father of synthesizer pioneer Jean Michel Jarre) is truly wonderful.
jean michel jarre is a pioneer of the "big gig" or extravaganza if you will. but he is not a pioneer of the synthesizer.
Originally posted by fred_lj
and Shakespeare in Love - dunno who did that one, though
stephen warbeck
Musical score:
The Exorcist,
Soundtrack:
Swingers
Originally posted by bunge
DEAD MAN, the film my Jim Jarmush with the soundtrack by Neil Young.
The entire soundtrack was done with Neil watching the film and playing improvised guitar to what he saw. It works perfectly. He watched the film straight through once or twice and then watched it with his guitar. It's really Brilliant.
Good choice. Great movie.
but i think peoples choices are interesting either way.
pop music in movies is mostly superfluous, meant to sell a soundtrack. there are exceptions.
paul thomas anderson's use of pop music in magnolia, i thought, was groundbreaking, all the characters in turn, singing along to aimee mann's "wise up." it would have gotten nominated for best song ("save me" by aimee mann was nominated) had it not already been used in the soundtrack (superfluously i might add) in "jerry mcguire."
and, on the subject of kubrick and his wonderousness, Clockwork has some nice songs too. that lighthouse song always surprises me.
pulp fiction
rushmore
true romance
last of the Mohicans ( good choice alcimedes)
trainspotting
big props also go out to:
starwars
close encounters
superman
And I was initially looking for best movie scores, but like skmdc said, it's interesting to hear peoples choices either way.
Speaking of film composers, could anyone have predicted that the frontman of 'Oingo Boingo' would become one of the leading composers of our time?
Originally posted by thuh Freak
you sad, pathetic, little "people" all missed the painfully obvious. 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Originally posted by 709
Let's get John William's SW score and Strauss's masterpiece out of the way immediately. Too easy.